WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, traveled to Jordan, the West Bank, and Israel and met with U.S. diplomats and Jordanian, Israeli, and Palestinian leaders. "This trip was an opportunity to meet with Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian leadership and  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, issued the following statement: Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to pass two bills out of Committee; H.R. 7520, the Protecting American's Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, which would prohibit data brokers from selling, transferring, or giving access to such data to certain foreign adversaries, and H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would require all foreign-  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper welcomed the Colorado River Upper Basin States' new proposal for long-term Colorado River management. The proposal comes as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation prepares to weigh options from the Basin States for long-term water management when the River's current operational rules established in 2007 expire in 2026. "We can't ignore the realities of a river with less w  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly issued the following statement after representatives from Arizona, California, and Nevada released the Colorado River Lower Basin state's initial proposal for the river's long-term operations: "The impacts of climate change on the Colorado River System will only grow in the years ahead, which is why the future of the river depends on everyone coming together to do their part and f  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Lower Basin and Upper Basin States released separate proposals for the Post-2026 Coordinated Operation of the Colorado River Basin: "As we turn toward the long-term operating guidelines to address a historic megadrought and the urgent need to conserve water resources in the Colorado River Basin, the Upper and Lower Basi  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) announced that 15 out of 15 community projects he requested funding for, totaling over $12.2 million for Colorado's 6th Congressional District, passed the US House of Representatives. The legislation will now head to the Senate for consideration, and if passed, onto President Biden to be signed into law. Projects to directly benefit constituents in Colorado's 6th District incl  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on March 7, 2024: Today, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), will attend President Biden's third State of the Union Address with guest Heather Martin, a Columbine school shooting survivor. Now, 25 years after the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, CO, Heather is a high school teacher and advocates for trauma-informed mental health care. "I invited Heather to the State of the Union this year to elevate   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on March 6, 2024: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first of the appropriations government funding packages for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $12,602,446 for 14 community projects secured by Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) that span Colorado's 7th Congressional District. Pettersen's projects include efforts to expand access to affordable housing, improve town centers and   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Reps. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado), Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) and Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) have reintroduced the Water Rights Protection Act to prevent the federal government from seizing privately owned waters. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced a companion piece of legislation in the Senate. "Kansas ranchers and fa  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Arizona, issued the following news release: Arizona, California, and Nevada proposed a new approach for long-term Colorado River operations Arizona senior Senator Kyrsten Sinema called on the Upper Basin States to come to the negotiating table and help secure the American West's water future. "I have long said the Colorado River is all of ours; we thrive or fail together - and failure is not an option. Today's proposal from Arizona, California, an  more